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Definition of Cleric
1. Noun. A clergyman or other person in religious orders.
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
Specialized synonyms: Ordainer, Pardoner, Pluralist
Specialized synonyms: A Kempis, Thomas A Kempis, Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno
Definition of Cleric
1. n. A clerk, a clergyman.
2. a. Same as Clerical.
Definition of Cleric
1. Noun. A clergy member ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cleric
1. a member of the clergy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleric
Literary usage of Cleric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians of Scotland (1880)
"In these days also a certain cleric, a native of England, was elected to the ...
The noble cleric Gilbert tlie Scot. Now, in that aforesaid council held at ..."
2. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1914)
"at Salem court, signed by Billiard Veren,* cleric, and served by Henery Skerry,*
marshal of Salem. Execution, dated Oct. 3, 1670, against James Murfee, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... removal of n cleric from his office and benefice with the prohibition of the
exercise of his orders) and degradation, which, in addition, withdrew from ..."
4. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"PLAYS THE cleric AND THE MAIDEN This fragmentary interlude,' belonging to the
thirteenth century, ..."
5. Hippolytus and Callistus: Or, The Church of Rome in the First Half of the by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Alfred Plummer (1876)
"If a cleric was merely suspended from exercising ecclesiastical functions, this
was the mildest form of ecclesiastical censure; it was applied 1 Can. 10, p. ..."
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